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Singing voice conversion is a task to convert a song sang by a source singer to the voice of a target singer. In this paper, we propose using a parallel data free, many-to-one voice conversion technique on singing voices. A phonetic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-12 Xin Chen , Wei Chu , Jinxi Guo , Ning Xu

Deep generative models have achieved significant progress in speech synthesis to date, while high-fidelity singing voice synthesis is still an open problem for its long continuous pronunciation, rich high-frequency parts, and strong…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-08 Rongjie Huang , Chenye Cui , Feiyang Chen , Yi Ren , Jinglin Liu , Zhou Zhao , Baoxing Huai , Zhefeng Wang

Recent beat and downbeat tracking models (e.g., RNNs, TCNs, Transformers) output frame-level activations. We propose reframing this task as object detection, where beats and downbeats are modeled as temporal "objects." Adapting the FCOS…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Jaehoon Ahn , Moon-Ryul Jung

Researches on sequential vocalization often require analysis of vocalizations in long continuous sounds. In such studies as developmental ones or studies across generations in which days or months of vocalizations must be analyzed, methods…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-09-28 Takuya Koumura , Kazuo Okanoya

Singing voice synthesis (SVS) is a task that aims to generate audio signals according to musical scores and lyrics. With its multifaceted nature concerning music and language, producing singing voices indistinguishable from that of human…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-07 Yin-Ping Cho , Fu-Rong Yang , Yung-Chuan Chang , Ching-Ting Cheng , Xiao-Han Wang , Yi-Wen Liu

Breath is a significant component in singing performance, which is still underresearched in most singing-related music interfaces. In this paper, we present a multimodal system that detects the learner's singing pitch and breathing states…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Ziyue Piao , Gus Xia

Equipping robotic faces with singing capabilities is crucial for empathetic Human-Robot Interaction. However, existing robotic face driving research primarily focuses on conversations or mimicking static expressions, struggling to meet the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Zhuoxiong Xu , Xuanchen Li , Yuhao Cheng , Fei Xu , Yichao Yan , Xiaokang Yang

Professional vocalists modulate their voice timbre or pitch to make their vocal performance more expressive. Such fluctuations are called singing techniques. Automatic detection of singing techniques from audio tracks can be beneficial to…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Yuya Yamamoto , Juhan Nam , Hiroko Terasawa

Separating the individual elements in a musical mixture is an essential process for music analysis and practice. While this is generally addressed using neural networks optimized to mask or transform the time-frequency representation of a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Genís Plaja-Roglans , Yun-Ning Hung , Xavier Serra , Igor Pereira

A typical neural speech enhancement (SE) approach mainly handles speech and noise mixtures, which is not optimal for singing voice enhancement scenarios. Music source separation (MSS) models treat vocals and various accompaniment components…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Weiming Xu , Zhouxuan Chen , Zhili Tan , Shubo Lv , Runduo Han , Wenjiang Zhou , Weifeng Zhao , Lei Xie

Beat tracking in musical performance MIDI is a challenging and important task for notation-level music transcription and rhythmical analysis, yet existing methods primarily focus on audio-based approaches. This paper proposes an end-to-end…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Sebastian Murgul , Michael Heizmann

The human ability to track musical downbeats is robust to changes in tempo, and it extends to tempi never previously encountered. We propose a deterministic time-warping operation that enables this skill in a convolutional neural network…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Bruno Di Giorgi , Matthias Mauch , Mark Levy

The state of the art in music source separation employs neural networks trained in a supervised fashion on multi-track databases to estimate the sources from a given mixture. With only few datasets available, often extensive data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Daniel Stoller , Sebastian Ewert , Simon Dixon

Recent progress in deep generative models has improved the quality of neural vocoders in speech domain. However, generating a high-quality singing voice remains challenging due to a wider variety of musical expressions in pitch, loudness,…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Naoya Takahashi , Mayank Kumar , Singh , Yuki Mitsufuji

In this paper, we design a system in order to perform the real-time beat tracking for an audio signal. We use Onset Strength Signal (OSS) to detect the onsets and estimate the tempos. Then, we form Cumulative Beat Strength Signal (CBSS) by…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Ali Mottaghi , Kayhan Behdin , Ashkan Esmaeili , Mohammadreza Heydari , Farokh Marvasti

In the domain of music production and audio processing, the implementation of automatic pitch correction of the singing voice, also known as Auto-Tune, has significantly transformed the landscape of vocal performance. While auto-tuning…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Mahyar Gohari , Paolo Bestagini , Sergio Benini , Nicola Adami

With the advancements in singing voice generation and the growing presence of AI singers on media platforms, the inaugural Singing Voice Deepfake Detection (SVDD) Challenge aims to advance research in identifying AI-generated singing voices…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 You Zhang , Yongyi Zang , Jiatong Shi , Ryuichi Yamamoto , Tomoki Toda , Zhiyao Duan

This paper proposes an expressive singing voice synthesis system by introducing explicit vibrato modeling and latent energy representation. Vibrato is essential to the naturalness of synthesized sound, due to the inherent characteristics of…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Yingjie Song , Wei Song , Wei Zhang , Zhengchen Zhang , Dan Zeng , Zhi Liu , Yang Yu

In this paper, we develop a new multi-singer Chinese neural singing voice synthesis (SVS) system named WeSinger. To improve the accuracy and naturalness of synthesized singing voice, we design several specifical modules and techniques: 1) A…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Zewang Zhang , Yibin Zheng , Xinhui Li , Li Lu

This paper presents Sinsy, a deep neural network (DNN)-based singing voice synthesis (SVS) system. In recent years, DNNs have been utilized in statistical parametric SVS systems, and DNN-based SVS systems have demonstrated better…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-28 Yukiya Hono , Kei Hashimoto , Keiichiro Oura , Yoshihiko Nankaku , Keiichi Tokuda